[natecavanaugh]

This article reads to me like someone arguing whether it's better to learn by reading or watching videos. Maybe both? Neither?

For me, what good is it to learn all of the fundamentals if I'm not sure those fundamentals are getting me closer to my goal? Especially in the world of tech, there is no short supply of "critical fundamentals", but woefully less in actual implementation.

And in the tech world, there's a lot of implementation that lacks even a cursory understanding of fundamentals.

IMO, this isn't a problem in the approach of learning, but the learner stopping at a superficial understanding on either side.

Some people don't like to jump into new endeavors without understanding the concepts. And others don't want to be bothered with abstracts until they can see the results.

Good students beat bad ones, regardless of the journey that took them there.